A stellar cast has been lined up for the Tricycle Theatre's all-lawyer version of 'Inherit the Wind', Obiter has learned. Among those treading the boards in the play - which is about a schoolteacher in Tennessee in 1925 accused of violating laws by teaching evolution - is High Court judge Mr Justice Burton. Other actors include Mark Krais, a partner at music firm Bray & Krais, Rob McCreath, a partner at City-based niche employment firm Archon, and Emma Bradley, a partner at London specialist criminal law firm Powell Spencer & Partners.

One mouth-watering prospect is the presence in the line-up of Harvey Kass, head of legal at Associated Newspapers, alongside Clarissa Amato and Athalie Matthews, solicitors at libel specialists Schillings and Carter-Ruck respectively. Other law firms represented include Hammonds, Bircham Dyson Bell, Herbert Smith, Goodman Ray and US practice Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. Barristers, meanwhile, come from chambers such as 4 New Square in Lincoln's Inn, and 7 Bell Yard.


The show runs from 22 to 25 March at the Tricycle Theatre, 269 Kilburn High Road, London NW6 7JR. For tickets, tel: 020 7328 1000. All proceeds go to the Tricycle's education programme and the Corinne Burton memorial trust.